Annotated
Mona Lisa : A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
by Carol Strickland, John Boswell
(Library Binding - 1992)
Art
in Europe 1700-1830: A History of the Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented
Urban Economic Growth
by Matthew Craske
Book Description: In an era of unprecedented change--rapid urbanization,
economic growth, and political revolution--European artists from 1700-1830
were in the business of finding new ways of making, selling, and talking
about art. Matthew Craske creates a totally new and vivid record of eighteenth-
and early nineteenth-century art in Europe, taking a critical view of such
conventional categories as the "rococo," the "neo-classical," and the "romantic."
He goes on to explore crucial thematic issues, such as changes in "taste"
and manners, and the impact of enlightenment notions of progress, and at
the same time goes well beyond the usual geographic limits of surveys to
include St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Warsaw, and Madrid. The result is a
refreshingly holistic text which sets the art of the period firmly in its
social history.
Paperback from Oxford Press
Book Published: May, 1997 |
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The
Art of Florence (2 Volume Set)
by Glenn Andres, et al
(Hardcover - July 1999)
Art in Renaissance Italy, Second Edition
by John T. Paoletti, Gary M. Radke
Listed under Renaissance Art
Art
and Architecture in France, 1500-1700 (Yale University Press Pelican History
of Art)
by Anthony Blunt, Richard Beresford
(Paperback - November 1999)
Ancient
Greece: The Famous Monuments Past and Present
by G. Behor (Spiral-bound -- March 2000)
Anne Vallayer Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie Antoinette
by Eik Kahng (Editor), et al
Listed under Women Artists
The Embarrassment of Riches : An Interpretation of Dutch Culture
in the Golden Age
by Simon Schama
Listed under Dutch History
Encounters
With Great Painters : The Artists, Bacon, Balthus, Braque, Chagall, Dali,
Delvaux, Leger, Matisse, Miro, Picasso, Van Dongen
by Roger Therond (Compiler), et al
(Hardcover - May 2001)
Currier's Price Guide to European Artists at Auction
by William T. Currier
Listed under Art Collecting
Early
Medieval Art (Oxford History of Art)
by Lawrence Nees
(Paperback -- June 2002)
The
Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
by Marcie Muir, Robert Holden (Contributor)
(Paperback - March 1997)
Special Order
Fairies
in Victorian Art
by Christopher Wood
Hardcover - 200 pages (November 2000)
Antique Collectors Club; ISBN: 1851493360
Flemish
Art and Architecture 1585-1700
(Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
by Hans Vlieghe
(Hardcover - March 1999)
Louvre:
Portrait of a Museum by Nicholas D' Archimbaud
This sumptuous, 335-page book, which is illustrated with 650 original
photographs by the author as well as hundreds of works of art in the Louvre's
vast holdings (plus archival plans and documents), is the next best thing
to being in Paris, at the great museum itself. This history of 600 years
of royal patronage, architectural adjustment, and voracious collecting
of sculptures, treasures, paintings, and antiquities is for the cultured
traveler, the intelligent tourist, and the art-loving amateur. The picture
captions are warmly written and discursive, often with only minimal details
about size and materials, and the text is much too user-friendly for art
historians, but there is a great deal of information here, which could
be absorbed only through long hours of perusal. The book is divided into
three main sections: Eight Centuries of History; Architecture; and The
Louvre's Seven Departments, including painting, Greek, Roman, Etruscan,
and Egyptian antiquities, sculpture, and the decorative arts. The building
itself is treated to a long discussion of the kings, queens, and presidents
who have tried and failed to have the last word on its appearance and use.
Torn down, rebuilt, redesigned, and, finally, wrenched into the late 20th
century by I.M. Pei's controversial glass pyramid, the Louvre is an evolving
work of art. (This book looks like the sort a parent leaves open on a coffee
table, attempting to edify the children, but note the two or three full-page
reproductions of artworks depicting tumescent male organs.) --Peggy
Moorman - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 336 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.30 x
11.84 x 9.80
Publisher: Abradale Press; (March 2001)
ISBN: 0810982153
Monet 2005 Calendar
by Washington National Gallery of Art
Listed under Art
Calendars
The
Ransom of Russian Art
by John A. McPhee
The story of Norton Townshend Dodge, a professor of economics who smuggled
large quantities of dissident art out of the Soviet Union.
Hardcover: 181 pages
Farrar Straus & Giroux; ISBN: 0374246823; (December
1994)
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
by David Hockney
Listed under David Hockney
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings
by Pietro C. Marani
Listed under Da Vinci
The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections
by Colta Feller Ives, et al
Listed under Gauguin
Medieval
Architecture (Oxford History of Art)
by Nicola Coldstream
(Paperback -- August 2002)
Knotwork and Spirals: A Celtic Art Workbook
by Courtney Davis (Illustrator)
Listed under Celtic Clip Art
Vermeer: A View of Delft
by Anthony Bailey
Listed under Vermeer
Rembrandt's Eyes
by Simon Schama, Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn
Listed under Rembrandt
Robert Taylor Air Combat Paintings
by Robert Taylor, Don S. Lopez
Listed under Art in Wartime
Venice:
Lion City
by Garry Wills (Hardcover -- September 2001)
Landscapes
from Brueghel to Kandinsky
by Wenzel Jacob, et al
Works from the Thyssen and Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection including
Pieter Brueghel, Frederic Edwin Church, John Constable, Wassily Kandinsky,
Claude Lorrain, Pieter Brueghel, Claude Monet, Jacob Ruisdael, and
Vincent van Gogh. Essays by Wenzel Jacob, Thomas Llorens, and Simon Schama.
Hardcover: 264 pages
Hatje Cantz Publishers; ISBN: 3775711074; (February 15,
2002)
Painting
in Spain 1500-1700 (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
by Jonathan Brown
(Paperback - June 1999)
Sacred
Monsters, Sacred Masters: Beaton, Capote, Dalí, Picasso, Freud, Warhol,
and More
by John Richardson
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From the scandalous murder trial of a French art dealer's widow to photographer-designer
Cecil Beaton's peculiar "romance" with Greta Garbo, this sinfully entertaining
book lets readers brush up on 20th-century cultural history and the vagaries
of human nature at the same time. While we wait for volume III of John
Richardson's acclaimed Life of Picasso, the 28 sketches assembled here
make an agreeable diversion, revealing Richardson's lighter side and formidable
knowledge of art history. Admiring portraits of Chilean collector Eugenia
Errazuriz ("Picasso's Other Mother") and British painter Lucian Freud are
among the very few laudatory pieces in a collection notable for its enjoyable
emphasis on the less edifying traits of the rich and/or famous. The Sitwells
were spiteful mythomaniacs. Armand Hammer was "a veteran con man." As for
the sexual proclivities of Salvador Dalí and his wife Gala... well, Richardson
gives you all the gory details, some of which would have impressed the
Marquis de Sade. Richardson appears as a character in several pieces: he
worked for Hammer, spent a summer with Truman Capote in Venice, and sat
for a portrait by Andy Warhol. But these appearances seldom seem self-aggrandizing;
they're integrated into the essays with the same smoothness that distinguishes
his prose. --Wendy Smith - Amazon.com
(Hardcover - November 2001)
History of Italian Renaissance Art : Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
by Frederick Hartt, David G. Wilkins (Editor)
Listed under Renaissance Art
Lives
of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (2 Vol Set)
(Everyman's Library, 129 (Cloth))
by Giorgio Vasari, et al
(Hardcover - November 1996)
The
Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)
by Giorgio Vasari, et al
(Paperback - May 1998)
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Painting
and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940
(Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
by George Heard Hamilton
(Paperback - March 1994)
The
Pictorial Arts of the West : 800-1200 (Yale University Press Pelican History
of Art)
by C. R. Dodwell
(Paperback - November 1995)
Victorian
Fairy Painting
by Jeremy Maas
Hardcover - 168 pages (November 1997)
ISBN: 1858940435
The
Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
by Arnold Hauser, Jonathan Harris
(Paperback - April 1999)
